Shoe-scraper



UNITED STATES soHUY'LER o. PLoTNEaoF scorn BEND, INDIANA.

SHOE-SCRAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 270,115, dated January 2, less.

Application filed September 14,1822. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SoHUYLER O. PLOTNER, of the city of South Bend, in the county of St. Joseph and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe- Scrapers; and I do hereby declare that the following is .a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form part of this specification, in which Figure l is a perspective view ofthe standard without the rubber scraper and face-plate. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the face-plate detached from the standard. Fig. 3 is a per spective view of the U-shaped rubber scraper. Fig. at is a vertical transverse section through the device complete.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Thisinvention relates to a new and improved device for cleaning boots and shoes of mud, 850., in the manner which I will hereinafter fully explain with'the aid of the annexed drawings.

may be suitably secured toany fixed base. This standard is cast'with a U -shaped jaw, B, which is broad'and shallow. The base and also the upturned portions of this jaw are flanged, as indicated by the letters a a, and at the middle of the length of thejaw I form a deep recess, 1), and a broad hooked lip, c, which latter rises directly from the pedestal of the standard A and hooks inwardly or toward the vertical flange ci of the jaw B. The

' inner face of the flange a has a deep depression, d, considerably elongated, at the termini of which are formed spurs or bosses e c, for a purpose hereinafter explained. Near the upper ends of the horns of the jaw B screwtapped holes are made through the vertical flange a. I

O designates a U-shaped face-plate or counter-jaw, which corresponds 'in shape and size to the interior surface of the flange a of the jaw B. At the middle of the length of the faceplate 0,]. form an interlocking flange, f, of hook shape, which is adapted to engage with the hooked lip 0 when the faceplate is adjusted in its place in the jaw B. p

D designates a U -shaped rubber scraper or boot and shoe cleaner, which is made to fit between the flange a of the jaw B and the-face A designates a four-footed standard, which or clamping plate 0. This rubber piece is scoredto receive the spurs or bosses e e on the flange a of the jaw B, and also to receive a boss, 9, formed on the inner surface of the plate (J. The lower edge of the rubber piece D is 'made quite broad at the middle of its length, so as to form a tongue,f, thatis slightly sion b between the hooked tongue 0 and the flange a of thejaw B. When the rubber piece D is adjusted in its place in the jaw B and the face-plate O is clamped. by means of screws and vertical edges of the latter, (indicated by letter 6,) will extend beyond the corresponding beveled edges of the said jaw and plate and afford scraping-surfaces both for the soles and sides of boots and shoes. By removing the desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination of the U-shaped jaw B on a standard, A, the tongues c, the studs 0 e, the depression d, the elastic Ushaped scraper D, having perforations through its upturned ends and a beveled tongue on its lower edge, the face-plate O, and the interlocking flange all constructed and adapted to operate subdescribed.

2. The new article of manufacture consisting of the elastic elongated U-shaped scraper through its upturned portions, and a beveled tongue on its lower edge, at the middle of its ate for the purpose and in the manner described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as witnesses. v

V SOHUYLER O. PLOTNER. Witnesses: JAMES DU SHANE, l T. M. BIssELL.

it against said rubber piece the horizontal.

screws which secure the clamping face-plate Having described my invention, I claimand stantially in the manner and for the purposes having depressions in its sides, perforations tapered and adapted tofit into the depreslength, all constructed and adapted. to oper- ICO my own I atfix my signature in presence of two 

